Haslam Crescent in Hoon Hay- Named after Alec Leslie Haslam (1904-1997). Haslam was a lawyer and judge. He graduated from Canterbury University in 1926. In a 145-acre housing subdivision planned by the housing division of the Ministry of Works. The land was purchased from the Church Property Trustees and the Loughnan estate. In 1968 the street names sub- committee of the council felt that as Halswell was named after a prominent English Queen’s Counsel it would be appropriate to record the names of judges in street names there. Many of them had been QCs or KCs before appointment to the Bench.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. All the houses here date from 1970s and are built in the typical style for 1970s state houses. A few houses were looking slightly run down but the street actually looked better than I expected. The street runs off McCarthy Street and there is also a walkway through to Rowley Ave. There were a few nice gardens. I was slightly nervous walking this street because of a bad experience from many years ago but I thought that the street was looking OK. It would have been about 40 years ago when I had to visit a family on this street to retrieve items stolen from a local kindergarten.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 